#Fiscal

Satyen Baindur

Satyen_Baindur

It's worth looking at @AmartyaLahiri's IE article in more detail. By focusing on **per capita** GDP growth rates, he is able to completely recast the India Growth Story narrative...I've added

Steven Hail

StevenHailAus

Sauk Eslake, on the radio this morning, for the most part provided a good commentary on the upcoming budget. Spoiled by two things, each of which are reflex actions of

Mike Makowsky

mikemakowsky

I was given the opportunity to lay out a proposal to end law enforcement as a system of taxation by the good folks at @hamiltonproj and @BrookingsInst, which you can

Max Bergmann

maxbergmann

The biggest geopolitical impact of corona c/d be in Europe. The fight over coronabonds is about the EU getting its act together. Word of a compromise was met w/ cheers.

Claudia Sahm

Claudia_Sahm

welp, there you have it folks ... I’m not a “serious economist” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/opinion/coronavirus-economy.html guess I can go back to bed many academic macroeconomists have a deep distrust of fiscal policy

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREAD:HE'S BEHIND EU 1. I may of course be wrong on this, but I don't think so. The EU is heading into another 'existential crisis' as they like to call

Rob Roberts MP

RobDelyn

1/9 When coming to power in 2010, the @Conservatives (along with the LibDems at the time) has to deal with an annual budget #deficit of £153,000,000,000. A hundred and fifty

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

This paper by Guerrieri et al is impressively fast work, similar in spirit to what I've been thinking but going much further while also crossing the eyes and dotting the

Gabriel Cohen

GabrioCohen

Hard to overstate the significance of this meeting. Merkel, Macron, Sanchez, Conte, & EU Commission President @vonderleyen.With Germany joining the states pushing for a vast European assistance program for COVID-hit

Robert P. J. Day

rpjday

1/ I've been struggling to find just the right way to mock the whiny, entitlement-soaked snots at @fairnessalberta regarding their tear-soaked pleading for the rest of Canada to step up

Why So Serious !

SurrealZak

What Congress Did for the country in the past 60 years ?!A Thread. Our Country did not start in 2014.. But yes... People who ignore the development are looking at

Daniela Gabor

DanielaGabor

thanks to @evgenymorozov I am now a Cyberflaneur! Did mine on #WallStreetConsensus - the global political project to ‘escort capital’ to Sustainable Developmental Goals in the Global South. Think World

Sahil Bloom

SahilBloom

Cobra Effect 101With the rise of government and central bank intervention in the economy and markets, the term "cobra effect" has experienced a revival.But what is a "cobra effect" and

Larry Schweikart

LarrySchweikart

1) There is no doubt that service industries, travel, restaurants, and personal (hair, nails, dog grooming, etc) are going to be hurt by this shutdown.But this may be a hard

PKS

PKSsoy

El atolizado seguidor de López es algo así como un “Sectario”. Vale madres si México se hunde como resultado de la dictadura bananera, no importan las mentiras, la corrupción, la

Terry #SlavesNoMore

America1stGal

As this war picks up and becomes more public, I wanted to take a moment to highlight a force that has been bashed and under appreciated. ICE @PunishDem1776